Celestia for LINUX lagging behind?

[SiriusCG]

I see that Celestia for Windows and Mac is currently 1.5.1 while for a LINUX install is at 1.4.1. I was simply curious why? Is there a lack of maintainer for the LINUX version?

Cheers.

[ElChristou]

I wasn't aware of this and indeed that seems to be odd as 1.6 is in dev and tested on all platforms...

[ajtribick]

See the download page. The Linux version supplied is v1.4.1. On the other hand many distros supply more up-to-date versions, and compiling the source isn't difficult at all once you've figured out the dependencies.

[ElChristou]

See the download page. The Linux version supplied is v1.4.1. On the other hand many distros supply more up-to-date versions, and compiling the source isn't difficult at all once you've figured out the dependencies.

Yep I checked and it's why I say it's odd... I guess there is a good reason for this... Chris? Pat? Fridger?

[selden]

Presumably Chris forgot to update that link when v1.5.1 came out.

I always send people directly to the SourceForge download page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=21302

All of the kits there are v1.5.1

[SiriusCG]

Thx guys... I grabbed the source and will play around a bit with it on my Debian partition...

Cheers!

[John Van Vliet]

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[duds26]

Presumably Chris forgot to update that link when v1.5.1 came out.

I always send people directly to the SourceForge download page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/files/

All of the kits there are v1.5.1

Then could you please remove: "Version 1.4.1"

It isn't mentioned with windows or Mac.

And change the url from the Linux binary to this one:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/files/Celestia-linux/<- wanted link
Instead of:
http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=celestia&filename=celestia-gtk-1.4.1.x86.package&use_mirror=freefr<- current link

[selden]

Hopefully ChrisL will have a chance to do that soon.

[LordFerret]

Thx guys... I grabbed the source and will play around a bit with it on my Debian partition...

Cheers!

I'm running Debian also (Etch). I downloaded the "celestia-1.5.1.x86.package" and used the Autopackage Software Installer to install it. Works just fine.

Note: assuming your configuration is default (like mine), user is your user name, mine for example is /home/alan... Once installed you'll find a hidden ".celestiarc" file in your home/user directory which contains some of the program defaults. You can use vim or other editor to change what you wish. The actual Celestia executable will be found in /home/user/.local/bin. The Celestia data files, and location of the extras folder which you'll want access to if you desire to install addons, will be found in /home/user/.local/share.

[SiriusCG]

@LordFerret, thx for the tips, they are appreciated. Currently, I'm messing around to see if could embed a Ruby or Python interpreter in Celestia. I'm running a quad core AMD CPU and interested in seeing if I can some multi-threading, multi-core action going... I'm not too impressed with LUA's coroutine architecture right now and I needed another project to keep me busy...